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ArticleJournal of virology2017

Chikungunya, Influenza, Nipah, and Semliki Forest Chimeric Viruses with Vesicular Stomatitis Virus: Actions in the Brain.

Anthony N van den Pol, Guochao Mao, Anasuya Chattopadhyay, John K Rose, John N Davis

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Article in Journal of virology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anthony N van den PolDepartment of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA anthony.vandenpol@yale.edu.
Guochao MaoDepartment of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Anasuya ChattopadhyayDepartment of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
John K RoseDepartment of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
John N DavisDepartment of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Yale University · US

Funding

Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award (U Component)UL1TR001863 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI John H. Krystal, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 2016 to 2026
$102.9M
Lassa-VSV targets and kills glioma, and is not neurotoxicR01CA188359 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI GUNEL, MURAT · 2015 to 2020
$1.9M
Vesicular stomatitis VSVrp30 selectively destroys human metastatic melanomaR01CA161048 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI VAN DEN POL, ANTHONY N · 2012 to 2016
$1.7M
LuIII parvovirus targets gliomaR01CA175577 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI VAN DEN POL, ANTHONY N · 2013 to 2015
$1.0M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001863NCI NIH HHS R01 CA161048NCI NIH HHS R01 CA175577NCI NIH HHS R01 CA188359
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV)-based chimeric viruses that include genes from other viruses show promise as vaccines and oncolytic viruses. However, the critical safety concern is the neurotropic nature conveyed by the VSV glycoprotein. VSVs that include the VSV glycoprotein (G) gene, even in most recombinant attenuated strains, can still show substantial adverse or lethal actions in the brain. Here, we test 4 chimeric viruses in the brain, including those in which glycoprotein genes from Nipah, chikungunya (CHIKV), and influenza H5N1 viruses were substituted for the VSV glycoprotein gene. We also test a virus-like vesicle (VLV) in which the VSV glycoprotein gene is expressed from a replicon encoding the nonstructural proteins of Semliki Forest virus. VSVΔG-CHIKV, VSVΔG-H5N1, and VLV were all safe in the adult mouse brain, as were VSVΔG viruses expressing either the Nipah F or G glycoprotein. In contrast, a complementing pair of VSVΔG viruses expressing Nipah G and F glycoproteins were lethal within the brain within a surprisingly short time frame of 2 days. Intranasal inoculation in postnatal day 14 mice with VSVΔG-CHIKV or VLV evoked no adverse response, whereas VSVΔG-H5N1 by this route was lethal in most mice. A key immune mechanism underlying the safety of VSVΔG-CHIKV, VSVΔG-H5N1, and VLV in the adult brain was the type I interferon response; all three viruses were lethal in the brains of adult mice lacking the interferon receptor, suggesting that the viruses can infect and replicate and spread in brain cells if not blocked by interferon-stimulated genes within the brain.

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AnimalsBrainChikungunya virusInterferon Type IMiceNipah VirusOrthomyxoviridaeSemliki forest virusSurvival AnalysisVaccines, AttenuatedVaccines, SyntheticVesiculovirusViral VaccinesInterferon Type IVaccines, AttenuatedVaccines, SyntheticViral Vaccinesblood-brain barrierbrainchikungunyainfluenza virusneurotropic virusesNipah virusvesicular stomatitis virusviral vaccine

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PMID28077641
PMCPMC5331823
OpenAlexW2576892948

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